Words in english starting with S

• strained — Adjective – English ～ struggling for effect; "agonistic poses"
• strained — Adjective – English ～ lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
• strained — Adjective – English ～ showing signs of mental and emotional tension; "her voice was strained as she asked the question"
• strained — Adjective – English ～ lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"
• soup-strainer — Noun – English ～ slang for a mustache
• strainer — Noun – English ～ a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through
• straining — Noun – English ～ the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
• straining — Noun – English ～ an intense or violent exertion
• straining — Adjective – English ～ taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt
• strait — Noun – English ～ a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
• Strait of Ormuz — Noun – English ～ a strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
• Strait of Dover — Noun – English ～ the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent
• Strait of Gibraltar — Noun – English ～ the strait between Spain and Africa
• Strait of Hormuz — Noun – English ～ a strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
• Strait of Messina — Noun – English ～ the strait separating Sicily from the tip of Italy
• Strait of Georgia — Noun – English ～ the strait separating Vancouver Island from the Canadian mainland
• Strait of Calais — Noun – English ～ the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent
• strait and narrow — Noun – English ～ the way of proper and honest behavior; "he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow"
• Strait of Magellan — Noun – English ～ the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was built
• strait — Noun – English ～ a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

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